一条从沉船中捞出的19世纪旧裤子被拍出11万美元

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Earlier this month, a pair of pants recovered from an 1857 shipwreck(沉船) sold for $114,000 at auction(拍卖).

Experts with the auction house think they were once a pair of men’s work pants, possibly worn by a person who works underground in mines in order to obtain minerals. The original color of the fabric is unclear, but after spending more than a century in a passenger’s trunk at the bottom of the sea, the pants are now marked by black and brown. The fly(前裆开口) has five buttons.

The pants likely belonged to John Dement, a merchant and ex-soldier of the Mexican-American War. He was one of the survivors from the S.S. Central America, a 280-foot ship that sank during a hurricane on its way from Panama to New York City. Several hundred passengers died in the wreck. The ship’s remains were found off the coast of North Carolina in 1988. When it sank, the S.S. Central America—also known as the “ship of gold”—was transporting thousands of pounds of gold bars, nuggets and coins found during the California Gold Rush.

Since the pants were recovered, their origins have been somewhat controversial. Auction house officials think they were an “early manufacture of work pants sold by Levi Strauss”, according to the listing page. “The five-button fly is nearly identical, if not technically identical, to Levi’s(李维斯牛仔裤) of today, inclusive of the exact style, shape and size of the buttons themselves,” they write. “We do not believe this to be a coincidence.” However, Levi Strauss made its first official pair of jeans in 1873, a full 16 years after the S.S. Central America sank to the bottom of the ocean.

Whether they’re Levi’s or not, the pants are still unique: Auction officials think they are the only known pair of jeans from the Gold Rush.

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